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Germany 78 Scientists H-Index Social Sciences / Library and Information Science Rankings - 2025
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* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 1
Neurosymbolic AI
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72
45
0.625
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 2
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
30
0.536
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 3
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53
29
0.547
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 4
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
28
0.700
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 5
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
22
0.550
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 6
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38
26
0.684
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 7
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
26
0.743
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 8
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
18
0.581
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 9
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
14
0.500
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 10
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27
22
0.815
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 11
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
13
0.542
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 12
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23
12
0.522
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 13
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
16
0.727
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 14
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19
13
0.684
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 15
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
12
0.750
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 16
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
11
0.688
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 17
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
8
0.500
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 18
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
8
0.500
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 19
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
5
0.313
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 20
Sociology of Science
Sociology of Technology
Sociology of the Media
Bibliometrics
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
9
0.600
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 21
information science
personal information management
information ethics
AI ethics & governance
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
12
0.857
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 22
Recommender Systems
Information Science
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
11
0.786
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 23
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
8
0.571
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 24
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
5
0.357
* Total H Index Rankings
Ranking Based
On Selection: 25
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
12
0.923
Sören Auer
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
72
45
0.625
Neurosymbolic AI
Knowledge Graphs
Web Science
Digital Libraries
Industry 4.0
Li Zhilin
Technische Universität Berlin
Berlin, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56
30
0.536
Cartography
Geographical Information Science
Andreas Lücke
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
53
29
0.547
palaeoclimate
palaeolimnology
paleohydrology
terrestrial archives
stable isotopes
Werner Marx
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
28
0.700
Bibliometrics
Information Retrieval
History of Science
Eberhard Gischler
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
40
22
0.550
carbonate sediments and rocks as archives of environmental and climate variation
Wolfgang G. Stock
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38
26
0.684
Information Science
Scientometrics
Social Media
Smart Cities
Information Markets
Robin Haunschild
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
35
26
0.743
Bibliometrics
Scientometrics
Altmetrics
Chemistry
Physics
Dirk Burghardt
Technische Universität Dresden
Dresden, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31
18
0.581
Cartography
Geovisualisation
Geographic Information Science
Generalisation
Frank Hopfgartner
Universität Koblenz Landau
Koblenz, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28
14
0.500
Information Retrieval
Recommender Systems
Data Science
Information Science
Lifelogging
Ralph Ewerth
Universität Hannover
Hannover, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
27
22
0.815
Multimedia Information Retrieval
Vision and Language
Digital Libraries
Multimodal Machine Learning
Visual Analytics
Thomas Risse
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
24
13
0.542
Semantic Evolution
Digital Libraries
Web Archiving
Data Management in Distributed Systems
Self-organizing Systems
Peter Heisig
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23
12
0.522
Knowledge Management
Information science
Socio-Technical Systems
Intellectual Capital
Process Design
Birgit Schmidt
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22
16
0.727
Publishing
Open Science
Open Access
Library and Information Science
LIS
Agnes Mainka
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
19
13
0.684
Information science - informational city - digital city - knowledge city - social media - digital education
Philipp Schaer
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
12
0.750
Information Retrieval
Information Science
Digital Libraries
Frank Havemann
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
11
0.688
bibliometrics
network analysis
open access
Hans Christoph Hobohm
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Potsdam, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
8
0.500
Bibliothek in der Digitalen Gesellschaft
Informationsverhalten
Wissensmanagement
Strategisches Management von Informationseinrichtungen
Andreas Bohne Lang
Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
8
0.500
Today: Information techniques in libraries / Former: Glycosciences
Jan Brase
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
16
5
0.313
Niels Taubert
Universität Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15
9
0.600
Sociology of Science
Sociology of Technology
Sociology of the Media
Bibliometrics
Jesse David Dinneen|Jesse David Dinneen
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
12
0.857
information science
personal information management
information ethics
AI ethics & governance
Lukas Lerche
Technische Universität Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
11
0.786
Recommender Systems
Information Science
Wolfram Horstmann
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
8
0.571
Information Science
Computational Neuroscience
Michael Ley
Universität Trier
Trier, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14
5
0.357
Digital Librariess
Information Retrieval
Database Systems
Franziska Zimmer
Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf, Germany
H-Index Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13
12
0.923
Information Science
Social Media Research
Gamification
Information Behavior